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| Thread ID: 110900 | 2010-07-06 11:46:00 | Text message delays... | bazmeister (3216) | PC World Chat |
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| 1116510 | 2010-07-06 11:46:00 | I live in Tauranga and am with Telecom for texts and land-lines etc.... I have just received a txt message from Dunedin that has taken 4 hours 10 minutes to get here. This has been happening regularly to me over a period of months. Once while out in the harbour fishing, a mate and I both text home to advise our other halves that we were ok. My message actually arrived home over 4 hours later when I was present in the kitchen. Is this normal....? Is there any point in contacting anyone about this (presumably south of Calcutta) or am I just part of the rubbish service that we have come to expect. If it's ok for the Scottish git to get reception in a creek in Southland, why should I put up with this....? |
bazmeister (3216) | ||
| 1116511 | 2010-07-06 11:54:00 | are you on XT or the older CDMA network? | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1116512 | 2010-07-06 12:28:00 | I live in Tauranga and am with Telecom for texts and land-lines etc.... I have just received a txt message from Dunedin that has taken 4 hours 10 minutes to get here. This has been happening regularly to me over a period of months. Once while out in the harbour fishing, a mate and I both text home to advise our other halves that we were ok. My message actually arrived home over 4 hours later when I was present in the kitchen. Is this normal....? Is there any point in contacting anyone about this (presumably south of Calcutta) or am I just part of the rubbish service that we have come to expect. If it's ok for the Scottish git to get reception in a creek in Southland, why should I put up with this....? It could be getting delayed by the network it is being sent from, eg 2degrees or vodafone. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 1116513 | 2010-07-06 12:39:00 | I've had the same problem with texts over the same network with to a certain phone (Samsung clamshell), but other phones (Nokia, etc) seem to be OK Don't know what causes it. |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 1116514 | 2010-07-06 12:40:00 | And yes, I must say it is frustrating to text someone, and then watch them get the text many hours later. | forrest44 (754) | ||
| 1116515 | 2010-07-06 19:50:00 | I've had this happen as well. Text a friend, go around to visit, only to arrive before the text and be there when it arrived... "oh look it's from you!" Yes, the lag can stretch to hours. I've never heard a truely credible explanation why this seems to plague some phones but not others. I've heard comments that it is typical of some brands of cellphone, but those comments came from the folks selling new ones, so it's probably just more bullsh to sell another phone. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1116516 | 2010-07-06 21:12:00 | Some phones? I txt a few people. The only 2 I have ever had that with live in crap cellphone coverage areas. One in Wyndham and one in Ngapara. The Ngapara one, sometimes she doesn't get it for over a day, and often can't send either. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1116517 | 2010-07-06 21:43:00 | I have had the same problem over the years with Vodafone and now 2degrees. (Different phones, different brand even) It happened every now and then with vodafone, but with 2* it happens with some regularities, almost daily. It's annoying as hell. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1116518 | 2010-07-06 22:41:00 | Let Telecom know - they will need details of the txt: what network it came from, where you were when you received it, that your phone was on during the period you should have received it. Telecom should be able to track back the message to when it was received by their network, which will pinpoint the ownership of the fault (if it came from another network). All networks sometimes experience delays in transmission/reception of txt messages - but if you don't tell them, how can they be expected to fix it? |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1116519 | 2010-07-07 06:05:00 | text messaging works in much the same way as email. if a message cant be delivery right now then it is put in a pending queue. that queue will be re-tried in 5 minutes. if the messages fails again then it will re-try again in 2 hours, then in 5 hours then in 2 days then just vanish. this problem means that if the cell-site you are in is over loaded then you can see delays. |
robsonde (120) | ||
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